Monday, 25 May 2009
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
JAPANESE GRAPHIC DESIGN
My auntie went to Tokyo recently and brought me back a load of examples of Japanese graphics : )
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Anarchy illustrations!
two very different cartoons about anarchy! one i painfully left wing, and one is very honest and true.
just interesting to see 2 different people's takes on how the world can be.
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Module evaluation
Overall, this module went a bit to shit.
I thought i was doing pretty good, specifically with delving further into mac monkeyism for 4 weeks.
I'm quite happy with my final boards for "Good is...", i think that they explain the step by step process i went through during the project very successfully. No printing costs though! i need to sort that stuff out still.
Similarly, my "design for print" double page spreads are quite visually appealing, especially after how interesting i've found the typography and layout workshops, however, my back-up work is absolutely dire.
My main reason for a bit of a dip in quality of work is that i, rather stupidly, chose to live with my girlfriend when choosing my first student house and this one year relationship recently ended in a big fuck up of a mess with her still living in the house, which i'm sure you'll agree, is a tad awkward. combining this with working with Bill Hicks quotes and, over the last couple of weeks i've become a cynical, bitter and sarcastic arsehole which has led to my concentration and motivation toward work suffering dramatically, along with any organisation that i had before hand (however little that may have been).
i do plan in tying up all the loose ends that i have left in the module at some point over the rest of the year, but if i tried to do that now i think that the stress would lead me to putting my head through a window or something equally idiotic.
Hopefully these few days off will sort me out a little bit.
I'm reasonably happy with my Bill Hicks stuff, i like my idea but the monotony of actually carrying out what i wanted to do drove me up the wall. Im annoyed that i didnt sort out print prices and stuff, although i did print a few pages of a PDF but there wasn't much thought about which pages i chose. the printing company who emailed me the PDF were meant to send me a sample book but nothing came through and they didnt get in touch. this led to me not thinking about it and when it all kicked off with my recently-ex girlfriend i just dropped everything and couldnt concentrate. it was hard not to with Hicks being a miserable cunt out of my speakers for a month.
before the end of the year i will have tied all the loose ends up and hopefully retained my "dont panic" work from wherever it disappeared to. i guess im just stressed to the max at the moment.
on the plus side, im going to try to get totally involved with my work now that my free time has altered so drastically to what it has been on the course so far.
I thought i was doing pretty good, specifically with delving further into mac monkeyism for 4 weeks.
I'm quite happy with my final boards for "Good is...", i think that they explain the step by step process i went through during the project very successfully. No printing costs though! i need to sort that stuff out still.
Similarly, my "design for print" double page spreads are quite visually appealing, especially after how interesting i've found the typography and layout workshops, however, my back-up work is absolutely dire.
My main reason for a bit of a dip in quality of work is that i, rather stupidly, chose to live with my girlfriend when choosing my first student house and this one year relationship recently ended in a big fuck up of a mess with her still living in the house, which i'm sure you'll agree, is a tad awkward. combining this with working with Bill Hicks quotes and, over the last couple of weeks i've become a cynical, bitter and sarcastic arsehole which has led to my concentration and motivation toward work suffering dramatically, along with any organisation that i had before hand (however little that may have been).
i do plan in tying up all the loose ends that i have left in the module at some point over the rest of the year, but if i tried to do that now i think that the stress would lead me to putting my head through a window or something equally idiotic.
Hopefully these few days off will sort me out a little bit.
I'm reasonably happy with my Bill Hicks stuff, i like my idea but the monotony of actually carrying out what i wanted to do drove me up the wall. Im annoyed that i didnt sort out print prices and stuff, although i did print a few pages of a PDF but there wasn't much thought about which pages i chose. the printing company who emailed me the PDF were meant to send me a sample book but nothing came through and they didnt get in touch. this led to me not thinking about it and when it all kicked off with my recently-ex girlfriend i just dropped everything and couldnt concentrate. it was hard not to with Hicks being a miserable cunt out of my speakers for a month.
before the end of the year i will have tied all the loose ends up and hopefully retained my "dont panic" work from wherever it disappeared to. i guess im just stressed to the max at the moment.
on the plus side, im going to try to get totally involved with my work now that my free time has altered so drastically to what it has been on the course so far.
Sunday, 19 October 2008
Arkham Asylum
I've included these images on my blog because they're very "arty" (for want of better words) for a comic book. The combination of photography illustration and painting really emphasises the intended darkness of the imagery. the layouts are also very interesting, especially because they can create a great sense of movement.
i think the most successful aspect is the way that each character's speech bubbles contain different typography and colours that match each personality. the joker is a particularly interesting case as his original campness is completely lost, and the psychotic and evil mentality that is played upon in The Dark Knight is almost overpowering, both in what he says, the type that is used, and even the way that he is presented.
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